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1. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Opinion: There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell ...

2. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... OCZ, Samsung and tried to visit Corsair – and the messages there for the first three are of cautious recovery. We couldn't get to see anyone from Corsair.Trundling down sweet old 101 the going was easy ...

3. Solid state drives save money - report

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     Despite reluctance to buy solid state disks (SSDs) because of price, they can save companies money in the long term, a report said. Despite reluctance to buy solid state disks (SSDs) because of ...

4. Samsung adds S-ATA minicard to SSD design

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Korean chaebol Samsung said it has started sampling a S-ATA interface minicard aimed at the netbook market.Korean chaebol Samsung said it has started sampling a S-ATA interface minicard aimed at the netbook ...

5. Fusion-io announces fastest 640 GB server SSD, 1.3 TB version soon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... one which fits an PCI-e 1.0 x8 slot and one which plugs into a PCI-e 2.0 x4 slot. The SSD is manufactured using Samsung flash memory and can be purchased in 160GB, 320GB, and 640GB capacities beginning ...

6. Taking SSDs beyond half a terabyte: Sandisk's 32 nm flash

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... GB for the first time.Samsung especially highlighted the benefits of such a small chip for microSD cards that are typically used as storage expansion in cellphones, as it provides twice the capacity of ...

7. Distributors jump the gun, sell Corsair 128GB SSD drives early

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... safe to say that this won't be our only offering." The drive is an MLC NAND-based Corsair model CMFSSD-128GBG1D. It has a Samsung controller, and an unformatted capacity of 128 GB. Read rates are 90 ...

8. CES 2009: Samsung announces SSD camcorder

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

   Samsung announced its first SSD camcorder at CES. The HMX-H106 offers a storage capacity of up to 64 GB (there are also 16 GB and 32 GB versions). Other features include 1920x1080 pixel resolution support, ...

9. New Samsung HD Camcorder Offers 64GB SSD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     Samsung is showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show this week four new HD camcorders, including a flagship model offering a 64GB SSD for video storage. Dubbed HMX-H106, it will be available in April, ...

10. Samsung announces “green” SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... an average 1.8” hard drive. Samsung says it has developed a new enterprise SSD that consumes less than one third of the power of a typical 2.5” enterprise hard drive and offers ten times the speed of ...

11. Dell’s super-thin Adamo notebook: Displayport, Blu-ray and $3000

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... been ordering ultra-thin (and expensive) 3.5 mm (0.14”) panels from Samsung, which could drop the thickness of the Macbook Air’s lid (4.1 mm or 0.16”). There is virtually no information on the standard ...

12. Solid-state disks hit half a terabyte

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... half of next year. Today’s 256 GB drives cover a wide range from a rumored sub-$1000 price that OEMs pay for Samsung’s largest SSDs at this time to about $8000 for industry-grade devices. Most 256 GB ...

13. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... has developed a 34 nm process which allows the companies to produce the currently smallest NAND flash chips and challenge the dominance of the two leading manufacturers, Toshiba and Samsung. Boise ...

14. Samsung upgrades speed and capacity of SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Samsung said it has begun producing previously announced SSDs with 256 GB storage capacity. The new drives are also substantially faster than Samsung’s previous SSDs. Seoul (CA) – Samsung said ...

15. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... $200 mark in U.S. retail and are moving into the mainstream with big steps. Samsung, Micron and Toshiba will begin selling 256 GB drives later this year and especially Samsung maintains that SSDs will ...

16. Apple preps Macbook upgrades and a mysterious "Brick"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... from 80 GB), Intel’s Penryn processors and more SSD storage capacity. It will be interesting to see which way Apple will go: Will it stay with companies such as Samsung and go all the way to 128 GB or ...

17. Why the SSD will kill the HDD

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Opinion – The days of the hard drive are numbered. I recently chatted with Samsung on their opinion of the state solid state disk drive (SSD) market and while Samsung seems to be very careful ...

18. Toshiba rolls out iPod/Zune hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... will be exceeding the storage space of 1.8” for the first time later this year. Samsung will be rolling out a 256 GB version of its MLC SSD in Q4, which, however, is likely to be at least 5-10 times as ...

19. Intel jumps into SSD market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... are not cheap, especially if industry sources tell us that manufacturers such as Samsung may be releasing 256 GB drives this year for “substantially” less than $1000. What do you think? Have SSDs arrived ...

20. Ready for the mainstream? Samsung announces SSDs for low-cost PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      It appears that Samsung is following through with its strategy to drive SSD-based mass-storage deep into the mainstream PC market late this year. “High-performance, Low-density SATA II SSDs for ...

21. SSD in new Eee PC to support SATA interface

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... sources. JMicron Technology and Samsung Electronics have been identified as the respective controller IC and single-level cell (SLC) NAND chip suppliers, the sources noted. More here at Digitimes.  ...

22. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... competitive, especially as market leader Samsung is accelerating the pace. Intel will begin offering SSDs with up to 80 GB capacity in the fourth quarter, while up to 160 GB will become available in ...

23. Samsung, Sun develop 'ultra-endurance' SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Samsung and Sun Microsoystems today said that the two companies have developed a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives that offers "much higher endurance levels ...

24. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... today’s mainstream desktop PCs. Toshiba also announced a 7200 rpm 320 GB drive. Samsung, Hitachi and Fujitsu have been offering 500 GB hard drives for some time now. These 5400 rpm drives (Fujitsu: 4200 ...

25. Samsung puts 128 GB SSDs into mass-production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Samsung today said that it has begun mass producing 1.8” and 2.5” multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with 64 and 128 GB storage capacity. Samsung also promises “more attractive” ...

26. Toshiba preps 1.8” 160 GB hard drives for PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... is more than sufficient, but when installed in a PC that is designed to deliver a certain performance, this is certainly not the product category of choice. Samsung and Toshiba reacted last year in August ...

27. Nvidia's lauches Tegra: A Computer on a chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Group Ltd, or Marvell, NEC Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Renesas Technology, Samsung, Seiko-Epson, Texas Instruments Incorporated, and Toshiba America, Inc. - suppliers of application processors ...

28. TDK launches 1.8” microSATA solid state disk drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the HS1 series achieves a 100 MB/s burst read and 50 MB/s burst write performance. Samsung recently announced SSDs that offer more than twice the speed. However, TDK claims that its drives are extremely ...

29. Samsung announces 256 GB, 200 MB/s solid state disk drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      Samsung claims to have developed the world’s fastest solid state disk (SSD) drive, offering a blazing 200 MB/s data read rate – about the performance of fastest hard drives money can buy today. ...

30. Super Talent's new 120GB SSD cost only $699

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... more than enough. When I bought my 32 GB SSD from Samsung in 2006 and put it inside Q30Plus notebook, SSD drive settled me back for almost $2K.  But read speed of 120 MB/s was stuff dreams were made ...

31. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... let’s take a brief look where the processor actually comes from. Atom, who are you? The UMPC disaster (Intel actually disagrees that the UMPC platform was a failure, since vendors such as Samsung were ...

32. Samsung first to ship 500 GB notebook HDD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... state disk drives. Samsung is the first HDD manufacturer to ship a gigantic 500 GB 2.5” hard drive (Fujitsu was first to announce such a drive), which is almost 16 times the capacity of the mainstream ...

33. Samsung puts 100 MB/s SSDs into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Samsung said it has begun mass producing 64 GB solid state disk drives (SSDs) with a 3 Gb/s SATA II interface. Seoul (Korea) – Samsung said it has begun mass producing 64 GB solid state disk drives ...

34. Wrap-up: All stories and slideshows from CES 2008

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ...  CES 2008: Big TVs for a big show CES 2008: Taiwan-based TV makers highlighting 42-inch and larger LCD TVs CES 2008: Samsung OLED TVs coming in 2010  ...

35. Toshiba preps 128 GB SSDs for Q1

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... important company to bring a new dynamic to a market that largely has been dominated by Samsung so far: According to iSuppli, Toshiba is the world’s second largest NAND flash supplier with a market ...

36. Mtron releases performance SSD for the consumer market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... MB/s. If the solid state disk drives (SSDs) currently available from manufacturers such as Samsung and Sandisk are just too mainstream for you, there is a new performance SSD from Mtron, which promises ...

37. Sandisk announces flash accelerator card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... July of last year, Samsung announced a 2 GB and 4 GB solid state disk drive that was created to take advantage of Windows Vista’s ReadyBoost feature. The 2.5” drives never made it to the U.S. ...

38. Samsung samples SATA II 64 GB SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Samsung claims it is first to be shipping 64 GB flash-based solid state disk drives (SSDs) with a 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA II interface. Seoul (Korea) – Samsung claims it is first to be shipping 64 GB ...

39. Ridata jumps on SATA SSD train

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 1.8” segment out there at this time. And if these drives are available, then you’ll see mostly IDE-based models – such as Transcend’s 32 GB model for about $470 or Samsung’s ...

40. Seagate puts 2.5” hybrid HDD into mass-production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... $200. Samsung’s FlashOn MH80, currently the only hybrid HDD available in US retail, sells for prices between $200 and $230, according to Pricegrabber.com. Interestingly, Seagate has positioned the ...

41. Alienware increases hard drive capacity in its notebooks to 640 GB

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Alienware may be an option for you. Alienware claims that it is first to market to offer customers Samsung's 320 GB 2.5" hard drives in single- and dual-device configurations for notebooks. Available ...

42. Dell, Alienware offer expensive 64 GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Samsung has begun shipping 64 GB SATA drive in a 2.5" form factor. The NAND flash-based hard drives are expected to become available as storage options for Dell and Alienware consumer notebooks. ...

43. 40,000 MP3 files in your pocket

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Samsung is getting more aggressive in the hard drive market: The company today announced a new 160 GB drive in a 1.8" form factor – which is often used in compact notebooks and some portable ...

44. Samsung starts mass producing 64 GB 1.8 inch SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Samsung announced today that it has begun mass producing 1.8 inch solid state drives (SSDs) with 64 GB. Seoul (South Korea) - Samsung announced today that it has begun mass producing 1.8 inch solid state ...

45. PQI announces 256 GB solid state drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... very quickly. That was the message of Jim Elliott, Samsung's director of flash marketing. NAND flash density is doubling every year, he said, and prices fall by 50% -- what's $10 a gigabyte this ...

46. Fujitsu spurns small hard drives, goes solid state

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  Fujitsu’s Masao Sakamoto told Reuters, “We want to see if the market tips towards flash.”  The company faces fierce competition from rivals Toshiba and Samsung in the regular hard ...

47. Samsung unveils 1.8” 64 GB flash hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... you soon may have a few options: Samsung today unveiled a 64 GB drive – which indicates that capacities are rising quickly and prices may be dropping at a similar pace. Taipei (Taiwan) – Is ...

48. Sandisk announces $350 flash hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... drive segment, which combines flash memory with a traditional hard drive. Among others, Samsung and Seagate are expected to roll out such drives during H1 of this year.  ...

49. Adtron to offer 160 GB 2.5" flash drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... focused technology into the mass storage market over the course of this year. During Q1, Samsung will launch its 16 GB and 32 GB SSD 1.8" drives, Sandisk is expected to make its 32 GB 1.8" disk ...

50. A-Data shows off massive 128 GB solid state drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... promise to enhance battery life by a few minutes. A-Data didn't specify the price, but did say that mass production should start late Q1. Both Samsung and Sandisk have announced competing 32 GB solid-state ...